Please use UTF-8 as encoding for your po files and stick to it. You can also translate the man page into your language. You find the man pages in ../data/man The tips for the "Tip of the Day" could also be translated. To do so, cd into ../src/modules/tip/ and copy libkvitip.kvc to libkvitip_<language code>.kvc (if it doesn't exist already). After copying open it in your favourite editor (read: vim ^^) and translate the tips. As stated in that file, the translated file MUST be encoded in UTF-8. Please have also a look into the file for you language in ../dist/windows/translations NOTE: This files are NOT UTF-8.
